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US 5,674,040 AGranted
Automatic multistorey carpark
OwnerJacek Wagnerinventor
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Abstract
A cylinder-shaped parking garage having a central inner shaft and a plurality of parking levels. Each of the parking levels has a plurality of parking spaces arranged in a radial pattern. Two car conveying devices are positioned about a central column and are rotatable about the central column.
Claims4
In a cylinder-shaped parking garage (1) having a central cylindrical inner shaft (2) and a plurality of parking levels (14), each of the parking levels (14) having a plurality of parking spaces arranged in a radial pattern;
- and the parking garage having at least one entrance and at least one exit, the improvement comprising:
- one stationary central column (3) disposed in a center of the central cylindrical inner shaft (2);
- at least two car conveying devices (4), positioned about the stationary central column (3) and rotatable about the stationary central column (3), the at least two car conveying devices (4) moving independently of each other,
- each of the at least two car conveying devices (4) comprising at least one elevator-like platform (8), the at least one elevator-like platform (8) being displaceable in a vertical direction, at least one vertically directed main support (5), said vertically directed main support (5) being aligned to said stationary central column (3) by at least one axial beating and at least one radial bearing, at least one auxiliary support (5A) forming a platform guidance (9), said platform (8) and a platform counterweight (10) slidable with respect to said platform guidance, and at least one accessory platform (11) positioned on one of the at least one main support (5) and the at least one auxiliary support (5A) of each of the at least two car conveying devices (4) at least one of above a top floor and below a ground floor.
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